19 September
Wads of shredded €500 notes worth tens of thousands of pounds have been found clogging up the lavatories of banks and restaurants in Geneva.
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Marine biologists have discovered a group of 15 gloomy octopuses (formerly thought to be solitary animals) living together in a ‘city’ dubbed Octlantis.
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Sending an object into space costs about $10,000 per pound.
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People who walk slowly are more likely to die of heart disease.
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A grain of sand contains more atoms than there are grains of sand on earth.
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14,269 British army applicants are turned down on medical grounds each year.